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British TV series or programme
Scotland Tonight
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Genre
| News, current affairs
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Directed by
| John Mason
Laura Trimble
Alasdair Murray
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Presented by
| John MacKay
Rona Dougall
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Theme music composer
| Rage Music
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Country of origin
| United Kingdom
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Production location
| Glasgow
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Edinburgh
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Aberdeen
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Running time
| 25 minutes
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Production company
| STV News
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Network
| STV
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Release
| 24 October 2011
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2011-10-24
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present
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Scotland Tonight
is a Scottish news and current affairs programme, covering the two
STV
franchise areas of Northern and Central Scotland, produced by
STV News
. The programme is presented by
STV News at Six
Central anchor
John MacKay
on Mondays & Tuesdays and former Sky News Scotland correspondent
Rona Dougall
on Wednesdays & Thursday.
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The half-hour programme, which launched on Monday 24 October 2011, replacing the former STV weekly-political programme
Politics Now
.
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Scotland Tonight
airs at 22:40 on Monday ? Wednesday nights following the late bulletin from
STV News
; the Thursday edition has aired in a prime-time 19:30 slot since January 2020. The programme features reports, interviews & analysis on the Scottish national news of the day alongside coverage of politics, business, sport and the arts & entertainment. In January 2022, it was announced that the Thursday edition would move one hour later to 20:30 from March 2022, due to other changes to STV's evening schedules.
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Scotland Tonight
is broadcast across both STV regions (
North
&
Central
). The programme is broadcast from studio 1 at STV's Glasgow studios, sharing the studio with the West edition of
STV News at Six
.
Gordon Chree
,
Colin Mackay
,
Aasmah Mir
,
Halla Mohieddeen
,
Bernard Ponsonby
,
Claire Stewart
and
Kelly Ann Woodland
have each presented on occasion.
Specials
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- Rangers ? The Downfall
: 14 June 2012
- Independence Referendum: Edinburgh Agreement
: 15 October 2012
- Referendum Debate: Nicola Sturgeon vs Michael Moore
: 16 May 2013
- Referendum Debate: Nicola Sturgeon vs Anas Sarwar
: 5 September 2013
- Referendum Debate: Nicola Sturgeon vs Alistair Carmichael
: 27 November 2013
- Referendum Interactive Debate
: 29 November 2013
- 2013 Glasgow helicopter crash
: 2 December 2013
- Referendum Debate: Nicola Sturgeon vs Johann Lamont
: 25 February 2014
- Europe Special
: 2 April 2014, live from Brussels.
- Death of
Margo MacDonald
: Friday 4 April 2014
- Salmond & Darling: The Debate
(reaction and analysis)
: Tuesday 5 August 2014
- UK 2015 general election
(reaction and analysis)
: Friday 8 May 2015
- Europe Special
: 25 June 2015, live from Brussels.
- 5th Birthday Special
: 24 October 2016.
Special extend programmes are also held for any
Scottish By-election
, usually presented by Bernard Ponsonby.
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